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■ Ill mil The Pendulum Thursday, September 28, 1983 Volume X, Number 4 I Enrollment record causes crowding HOMECOMING PERFORMERS: Entertaining at the SGA dance at the Best West ern Friday is Hot Smokin’ Brass. They will perform top 40 and beach music. Homecoming starts today By Margaret Caldwell Staff Writer Homecoming activities begin today at 9:20 a.m. as the Student Government Association sponsors a homecoming coffee by the Fonville Fountain. A pep rally with the Showband and cheerleaders will whip up spirit for Satur day’s game. The SGA homecoming dance will be at Best Western from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday. The entertainment will be provided by Hot Smo kin’ Brass, performing top 40 and beach music. Tickets are $4 single and $7 a couple. The dress will be semi-formal. A new policy at the Best Western, is that_no one under 19 can be admitted if alcohol is served. This means that one-third of the fresh men are unable to be admitted. Student Government President Diane McSheehy said, “For the interest of all the people who are concerned about homecom ing, the dance will still be the same time, but no alcohol will be served.” She went on to say that this decision was made by both the hotel, the homecoming com mittee and the executive officers in the stu dent government. A shuttle bus will leave every half hour from the visitor’s parking lot starting at 8:30 p.m. It will run until 1:30 a.m. Students are encour aged to use this free service for their own pro tection. Continued on page 6 By Penny Thomas Features Editor Elon College is having to deal with the “good problems” stemming from the above aver age enrollment this year of 2,715 students said Vice- President Chris White. These problems are “fairly clear” said Will Migniuolo, En glish instructor and academic skills coordinator. The dorm rooms are obviously crowded and the classrooms are full, Mignioulo said. White said that possible ac tions to help the housing situa tion are to require seniors to live off campus, to cut down the number of students admitted or to build a new dorm. He said that he likes the lat ter idea the best and that Elon definitely needs to get the stu dents out of Best Western and out of the tripling of residents in Smith and Carolina dorms. President Fred Young is ful ly aware of the housing prob lem, said Migniuolo; however, “The students can’t expect a dorm to be build overnight,” he said. Migniuolo said that Elon could have great teachers and the best academics programs, but if the students are not hap py and comfortable then their attitude towards the school will not be very positive. White said that the clas srooms are “full but not cram med.” Yet there have been complaints from various teachers concerning classroom size. The faculty members, said Mingiuolo, “are really having to extend ourselves” in dealing with the full classrooms. He also said that the admis sions committee will be meet ing soon to discuss how to deal with the increased numbers of students more efficiently. He said that it would be dangerous if students at Elon became lost in a crowd since Elon does pride itself on being able to serve each student so that each student has access from the top to the bottom of the administra tion. He said, though, that he doesn’t believe this will happen. White contends that the clas sroom numbers are really not any larger than in the past. He said the administration hired new part-time teachers as soon as it knew that the number of students was going to be grea ter than they had anticipated. White also said that when the Fine Arts Center is completed it will alleviate crowding in the classrooms. Gerald Gibson, instructor in Communications and WSOE Radio Station advisor, said that his classrooms are “a little crowded but not beyond reason.” The number of stu dents in his classes is “more than he would like but that the additional students do provide nice benefits,” he said. One of those benefits which has been made possible by the rise in the number of students is the ability for WSOE to go up in power by 500 watts, Gibson said. Migniuolo said the number of students is a good sign for col- Continued on page 15 ^^^^TEIectionsI winners p. 2 Dean Long gets new job p. 11 Teeing off Golf team preview p. 13
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